Title Backroads pragmatists : Mexico's melting pot and civil rights in the United States / Ruben Flores

Edition 1st ed Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2014 ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (353 pages) Series Politics and culture in modern America Politics and culture in modern America. Contents A Symphony of Cultures -- Shock Troops -- The Language of Experience -- The School and Society -- The Yaqui Way of Life -- "The Sun Has Exploded": Integration and the California School -- Texas and the Parallel Worlds of Civil Rights Summary Like the United States, Mexico is a country of profound cultural differences. In the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution (1910-20), these differences became the subject of intense government attention as the Republic of Mexico developed ambitious social and educational policies designed to integrate its multitude of ethnic cultures into a national community of democratic citizens. To the north, Americans were beginning to confront their own legacy of racial injustice, embarking on the path that, three decades later, led to the destruction of Jim Crow. Backroads Pragmatists is the first book to show the transnational cross-fertilization between these two movements. In molding Mexico's ambitious social experiment, postrevolutionary reformers adopted pragmatism from John Dewey and cultural relativism from Franz Boas, which, in turn, profoundly shaped some of the critical intellectual figures in the Mexican American civil rights movement. The Americans Ruben Flores follows studied Mexico's integration theories and applied them to America's own problem, holding Mexico up as a model of cultural fusion. These American reformers made the American West their laboratory in endeavors that included educator George I. Sanchez's attempts to transform New Mexico's government agencies, the rural education campaigns that psychologist Loyd Tireman adapted from the Mexican ministry of education, and anthropologist Ralph L. Beals's use of applied Mexican anthropology in the U.S. federal courts to transform segregation policy in southern California. Through deep archival research and ambitious synthesis, Backroads Pragmatists illuminates how nation-building in postrevolutionary Mexico unmistakably influenced the civil rights movement and democratic politics in the United States Notes "Published in association with the William B. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Text in English Print version record Subject Social reformers -- United States -- History -- 20th century Social reformers -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century Social movements -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century Education and state -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century Nationalism -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century Cultural pluralism -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) Civil rights movements Cultural pluralism Education and state Nationalism Politics and government Social movements Social reformers SUBJECT Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1910-1946. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084613 Subject Mexico New Southwest United States Mexico. Verenigde Staten. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies. ISBN 9780812209891 0812209893 1322513589 9781322513584 0812246209 9780812246209

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